Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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April LaSalata of Brentwood, N.Y., for example, sought to escape the bashings of her husband Anthony by divorcing him and obtaining an order of protection. Ignoring the order, Anthony broke into his ex-wife's home last year and stabbed her with a hunting knife, leaving a scar that ran from her throat to her pubic bone. Police arrested him, but he soon got out on bail and resumed harassing April. Two months ago, Anthony shot his wife to death, then committed suicide...
Modern life seems ever more terrifying. A passenger jet explodes over Scotland. The wife of the captain of the U.S.S. Vincennes leaps out of her van an instant before a pipe bomb blows it up on a San Diego street. A Japanese Red Army terrorist, allegedly heading for a Navy recruiting station in Manhattan, is nabbed on the New Jersey Turnpike with shrapnel bombs. Bookstores in Berkeley are fire bombed for selling Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses...
Given the growing popularity of in-vitro fertilization, it was just a matter of time before a case like this one arose. During nine years of marriage, Junior Davis, 30, and his wife Mary Sue, 28, tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to have a child. That experience led the couple six years ago to a fertility clinic in Knoxville, where eggs taken from Mrs. Davis were fertilized in a laboratory with her husband's semen...
Despite his wife's pledge not to seek child support in the event that she gives birth, Davis, a refrigeration-maintenance engineer, would remain legally liable for such support. His lawyer, Charles Clifford, says that Davis "cannot envision ever agreeing to letting Mrs. Davis have the eggs implanted into her, or donated to a third party." Adds Clifford: "He was hoping that it was just going to be a simple no-fault divorce...
...brutal wife killing in Indiana shocks a community and raises questions about the limited reach of the American legal system's protective arms...